This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 Excerpt: ... toostrong to be overcome. Thus, for example, a sentence 1 in the earliest of them, that against Callimachus, is copied word for word in the Antidosis;2 and this Isocrates would never have done had not the original form been his own. Thespeech was delivered shortly after the amnesty, as the practice of arguing a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 Excerpt: ... toostrong to be overcome. Thus, for example, a sentence 1 in the earliest of them, that against Callimachus, is copied word for word in the Antidosis;2 and this Isocrates would never have done had not the original form been his own. Thespeech was delivered shortly after the amnesty, as the practice of arguing a demurrer (irapaypapii) before the plaintiff spoke was then quite new, and was specially introduced to meet violations of the amnesty. The legal plea of the speaker (who is the defendant in an action for 10,000 drachmae, said to have been abstracted from the plaintiff during the troubles following upon the rule of the Thirty) was to urge the act of amnesty, as a bar to further proceedings; but, as was always the case before Athenian juries, such legal points, however valid, must be supported by showing that the defence was a just one on its own merits. Hence most of the speech is spent in proving that the speaker had nothing to say to the loss of the money; moreover, that his opponent was a villain and a sycophant, while he himself was a patriotic democrat. The details concerning the act of amnesty and its general observance make the speech one of historic interest. It is smoothly and gracefully written, but wants the incisiveness of the greater logographers, as well as their superior ethos or character-drawing. A certain diffuseness is alsoto be observed, which we should naturally expect from Isocrates. The short speech composed for a man of the lower classes against Lochites, who had assaulted him, has the same features--too much smoothness and too many generalities, though it is very interesting in its assertion of the modern notion of insult as the main thing to be resented by free men, the damage done being a mere accidental consequence of an es...
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